What is Presumption as to genuineness of certified
copies? What is Presumption as to documents produced as
record of evidence? Section
79 and 80 of Indian Evidence Act 1872

Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies and
Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence are defined under section
79 and 80 of Indian Evidence Act 1872.
Provisions under
these sections are:

Section 79 of
Evidence Act
"Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies"

Such certified
copies may be produced in proof of the contents of the
public documents or parts of the public documents of which
they purport to be copies.

The Court shall presume [to be genuine]
every document purporting to be a certificate, certified
copy or other document, which is by law declared to be
admissible as evidence of any particular fact and which
purports to be duly certified by any officer [of the Central
Government or of a State Government, or by any officer 59[in
the State of Jammu and Kashmir] who is duly authorized
thereto by the Central Government] :

Provided that such document is substantially in the form and
purports to be executed in the manner directed by law in
that behalf.

The Court shall also presume that any officer by whom any
such document purports to be signed or certified held when
he signed it, the official character which he claims in such
paper.

Section 80 of
Evidence Act
"Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence"

Whenever any document i.e. produced before any Court,
purporting to be a record or memorandum of the evidence, or
of any part of the evidence, given by a witness in a
judicial proceeding or before any officer authorized by law
to take such evidence or to be a statement or confession by
any prisoner or accused person, taken in accordance with
law, and purporting to be signed by any Judge or Magistrate
or by any such officer as aforesaid, the Court shall presume
–

that the document is genuine; that any statement as to the
circumstances under which it was taken, purporting to be
made by the person signing it, and that such evidence,
statement or confession was duly taken.